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  1. Parapet walls along hill roads, are provided

  2. A.
    to retain the back filling
    B.
    to prevent the hill from sliding
    C.
    to prevent the wheels of the vehicle from coming on the retaining wall
    D.
    none of these.

  3. From the point of tangency before an intersection, the route markers are fixed at a distance of

  4. A.
    15 m to 30 m
    B.
    20 m to 35 m
    C.
    40 m to 50 m
    D.
    50 m to 75 m
    E.
    100 m to 150

  5. A gradient along which the vehicle does not require any tractive effort to maintain a specified speed, is known as

  6. A.
    ruling gradient
    B.
    pushing gradient
    C.
    floating gradient
    D.
    minimum gradient

  7. The traffic carrying capacity of a single lane, depends on

  8. A.
    type of the vehicles
    B.
    level crossings
    C.
    road intersections
    D.
    surface texture
    E.
    all the above.

  9. The number of vehicles moving in a specified direction on a roadway that pass a given point during specified unit of time, is called

  10. A.
    traffic volume
    B.
    traffic density
    C.
    basic capacity
    D.
    traffic capacity.

  11. Bottom-most component of a flexible pavement, is

  12. A.
    subgrade
    B.
    sub-base
    C.
    base
    D.
    base course.

  13. If V is the design speed in km/hour and R is the radius of the curve of a hill road, the super-elevation


  14. Pavement is said to be flexible if it contains

  15. A.
    water bound macadam surface
    B.
    stabilised soil base constructed of lime cement or tar
    C.
    bitumen-bound stone layer of varying aggregates
    D.
    lean concrete base
    E.
    all the above.

  16. In ideal pavement is constructed with

  17. A.
    bricks
    B.
    hard soil
    C.
    Portland cement concrete
    D.
    tar
    E.
    none of these.